Combined cultivator and scraper



(NovModel.)

J. F. LEWIS. Combined Cu'ltivatorand Scraper'.

No. 236,343. Ptented Jan. 4,-18'81.

I u Per s Fuero Asnmm'oN n c UNITED STATES PATENT CEEICEQ,

JAMES F. LEWIS, OF ROCKY HILL, KENTUCKY.

COMBINED ouLTlvA-roa AND scRAPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 236,343, dated January4, 1881.

` Application led August 23, 1880. (Nomodel.) l

To all whom it may concern:r

Be it known that I, JAMES F. LEWIS, a. citizen ot' the United States,residing at Rocky Hill, in the countyot' Barren and State of Kentucky,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Cultivatorand Scraper; and I do hereby declare the follow ing to be a full, clear,and exact description of the invention, suehas willenable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accom panying drawings, and to letters or gures ofreference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to a cotton-scraper and cotton-eultivator capableot' adjustment and usein different agricultural pursuits; and thenovelty consists in the construction and arrangement ot' parts, as willbe more fully herenafter set forth.

The device is bolted together in such a manner that it may be readilytaken apart and.

changed, as will be seen, from a one-horse cultivator to a two-horsescraper, cultivator, or plow. l Y

In carrying out my invention I employ the construction shown in theaccompanyingdrawings, which forma part of this specification, and inwhich- Figure lis a side elevation, and Fig. 2 a top- Y plan view.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the main beam, to which aresecuredthe handles A', as shown. From the forward end of the beam Aextend braces b, which are secured to double plates B-,havingperforations b', which receive removable bolts, which secure upon oneside the beam D, and upon the other side the beam E.

C represents a cross-plate, having perforations c, as shown.

The beam D may be secured by pin-bolts, easily removable, to the innerholcsin the plates B and the outer holes in the plate C, when the.device is arranged for a two-horse cultivator, and reversed whenarranged for a one-horse cultivat0r, and the same adjustability is trueof the beam E.

The beam E is provided with two lateral lslots, e, by means ot' whichthe said beam may be set forward, as shown in Fig. 2, for a scraper andcultivator, or be set back for a cultivator, the perforated plate C cworking in either slot c, as desired.

F represents the plow-shank, and j' the plow. These plows are readilyremoved, and are adapted to be interchanged to adapt the. 'device to thedifferent purposes for which it is intended.

Cr represents a bifurcated standard secured one to each of the beams Dand E by means of a bolt, which operates in the slotg and renders thestandard vertically adjustable. Between the bifurcated extremities ofthe standard G isjournaled the colter H7 and a brace, H', extends fromthe shaft of the colter H upward and backward, and is secured to thebeam, as shown.

From this description the operation is obvious. l

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The herein-described cultivator, consisting of the beam A, theperforated plates B C, the laterally-adjustable beams D E, thebifurcated slotted standards G, braces H', and colters H, the said beamE adapted to be adjusted backward or forward to form a cultivator orscraper, as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

`JAMES F. LEWIS. Witnesses:

H. C. BISHOP, W. T. KIDD.

